Zombiesque: The lighter side of the living dead

Zombiesque: The lighter side of the living dead

Logic isn't always to be feared– but fear is often logical. At least, that's the dynamic local director Brian Wimer is tapping into with his genre of choice: horror. The past three films he's spearheaded have contained varying degrees of humor, absurdity, and horror, and two of them– 2009's Eat Me: The Zombie Musical and his most recent, Danger. Zombies. Run.– play off the long-standing fear of the living dead to present a larger social critique. 

"Zombies are something to be feared, and what we do is run from them," explains Wimer. "But zombies only chase you because you run from them."

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